-Firstpost.com It is becoming increasingly difficult to retain respect for Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. He seems to surface in the media every time the UPA government is about to legislate its pet follies, providing intellectual succour to mindless spending and corruption wrapped up in the package of anti-poverty schemes. Yesterday, Sen bobbed up just when the UPA - under siege for every known scam in India - tried to start discussions on...
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Posco mining licence: SC puts the ball in Centre's court
-PTI The Supreme Court today set aside the Orissa High Court order which had quashed state government's petition to allot iron ore licence to South Korean steel major Posco in Khandadhar hills in Sundergarh district for a multi-crore steel plant. A bench headed by Justice R M Lodha asked the Centre to consider all the objections raised by various parties pertaining to the mega steel plant and take a decision. The court was...
More »Agriculture now moves into the field of tourism -Madhvi Sally & PK Krishnakumar
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI/ KOCHI: A growing number of farmers are turning entrepreneurs and earning big bucks from something they offered free to friends and relatives - a healthy and relaxing weekend to unwind in lush green farms, drive a tractor, ride a bullock cart, milk a cow and pluck fresh fruit from orchards. Farm tourism, once a small niche, is expanding rapidly and getting a big push from the tourism...
More »HC issues non-bailable warrant against 3 dozen babus for contempt -Ravi Singh Sisodiya
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: A Lucknow bench of high court on Wednesday issued non-bailable warrants against three dozen state government officials for non-compliance of the court's orders. The state bureaucracy faced the ire of the bench for the second consecutive day for failing to carry out its orders within stipulated time despite being served contempt notices. The list of these officials includes Lucknow's DM Arurag Yadav and DIG Navniet...
More »NCW writes to Ministry again over AMU 'discriminatory practice'
-The Hindu The National Commission for Women has extended its support to the ongoing campaign for allowing non-professional undergraduate women students in Aligarh Muslim University access to the Maulana Azad Library. The NCW has written to the Union Human Resource Development Ministry expressing its concern over "the gender discrimination". Faculty members and students, who have been demanding an end to the "discriminatory" practice that does not allow students from Women's College access...
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